Here is an overview of online resources for the study of early medieval England. This list is under construction and far from complete. Miss anything? Please send an e-mail to m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Find links to
- Databases, resources and corpora
- Digitized manuscript collections
- Project websites
- Dictionaries and lexicographical databases
- Digital editions of Old English texts
- Societies
- Teaching resources
- Blogs
- YouTube resources
Databases, resources and corpora
- The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
- Dictionary of Old English Corpus (subscription required; trial accounts allow for 20 free searches)
- DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic
- Early English Laws
- The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters
- Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors
- Old English Newsletter Bibliography Database
- Portable Antiquities Scheme
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
- Woruldhord (University of Oxford)
Digitized manuscript collections
- Digitised Manuscripts (British Library)
- Parker Library on the Web
- Cambridge Digital Library
- EM1060: The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060-1220 (Stanford University)
- Free, Fully Digitized Manuscripts Containing Old English (overview by Damian Fleming; Purdue University Fort Wayne)
- The Staffordshire Hoard
- The Old English Martyrology: An Annotated Bibliography (Christine Rauer; University of St Andrews)
Dictionaries and lexicographical databases
- Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
- John R. Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edn (1916)
- Dictionary of Old English website (subscription required; trial accounts allow for 20 free searches)
- The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project (University of Manchester)
- Nerthus Project: Online Lexical Database of Old English (Universidad de La Rioja)
- A Thesaurus of Old English (University of Glasgow)
- Online Etymology Dictionary
Digital editions of Old English texts
- Electronic Beowulf 4.0 (Kevin Kiernan; University of Kentucky)
- Electronic Beowulf Index & Guide (Kevin Kiernan; University of Kentucky)
- Beowulf on steorarume (Benjamin Slade)
- Old English Poetry in Facsimile (Digital Mappa)
- English Place-Name Society
- Regia Anglorum (re-enactment society)
- Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI)
- Overview of teaching resources for Old English on TOEBI website
- Old English Reader (Murray McGillivray)
- Old English Aerobics (Peter S. Baker)
- A Clerk of Oxford (Eleanor Parker; University of Oxford)
- Medieval Fleming (Damian Fleming; Purdue University Fort Wayne)
- For the Wynn (Kate Thomas; University of York)
- Medieval Studies Research Blog (University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute)
- The Medieval Monk (Christopher Monk)
- Old English Wordhord (Hana Videen; King’s College London)
- Thijs Porck‘s blog (Thijs Porck; Leiden University)
- The Riddle Ages: Old English riddles, translations and commentaries
- Introducing Old English (Alaric Hall; University of Leeds)
- Old English Grammar Bytes (Thijs Porck; Leiden University)